Control: tags -1 moreinfo Martin Pitt: > Control: tag -1 confirmed -moreinfo > > Hello Niels, > > Niels Thykier [2016-01-16 14:34 +0000]: >> Does this issue still apply to Britney at the current master branch? We >> have removed register_reverses in favour of a different approach for >> unrelated reasons. > > Yes, it does still apply. I rebased Ubuntu's britney onto current > master, and the test_multiarch_dep() test fails. So I reopened the > bug. >
Ok thanks. :) > Current britney uses apt_pkg.parse_depends() which already has an > option to strip off multi-arch qualifiers. It just needs to be > enabled. > > Patch attached. > > Thanks, > > Martin > > [1] > https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+git/britney2-ubuntu/tree/tests/test_autopkgtest.py#n1233 > > We need to handle the multi-arch dependencies explicitly as "pkg:amd64" is *not* acceptable for an i386 packages (etc.). Unfortunately, the proposed patch causes exactly that behaviour[1]. :-/ [1] We have a very crude test for this in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/britney2-tests.git/tree/t/multi-arch-depends/ It probably only covers the most straight forward case.
